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The University of California, Santa Cruz will support the establishment of a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Regional Food Business Center to support resilient food systems.
USDA unveiled 12 new Regional Food Business Centers funded with $400 million that will provide technical and financial assistance to strengthen local and regional food systems. As a compliment to the meat and poultry processing grants, USDA also announced $420 million in a new Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program for states to use to expand capacity and processing for non-meat and poultry products.
U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) have announced that the U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) will be investing more than $40 million to establish the Appalachian Regional Food Business Center (RFBC) in partnership with Rural Action, Inc., based in The Plains, Ohio.